At MWC Barcelona this month, the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum will set out its technology roadmap for 2030, creating a more secure and sustainable world powered by light. Founded in 2020, the association is leading the development of pioneering technology that augments and replaces electronics with photonics to transfer and process vast quantities of data at speeds previously considered impossible. Senior executives and technical experts from Ericsson, Fujitsu, Intel, KDDI, Nokia, NTT, Red Hat and SKTelecom will discuss at a MWC panel session how collaboration is required across the entire technology ecosystem to realize this vision. They will share exciting use case examples, ranging from the way we spend money to the way we are entertained, and the technologies that will meet their requirements in practice.
IOWN Global Forum is building a community of best-in-class partners across diverse industries to revolutionize future communication infrastructure, based on leading-edge optical technology and information processing technologies. Its work is focused on multiple challenges facing society; from minimizing environmental footprint, to enabling the next generation of AI systems to handle unprecedented levels of distributed data in real time. According to the Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2023–2027, 129 zettabytes of data were generated last year and will more than double in three years’ time.
To tackle key social issues and realize a smarter world by 2030, the member association sets out to lower power consumption by 100 times; deliver higher transmission capacity by 125 times; and lower end-to-end latency by 200 times.
IOWN Global Forum is now taking its vision to reality with use case level commercialization of its technologies. The association plans to focus on early adoption use cases that leverage the unique characteristics of IOWN APN, enabling ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low and deterministic latency network. Sectors include:
- Finance – to help deliver zero-delay on financial exchange, zero-fraud financial transaction, and highly secure, automatic, resilient and easy-to-access financial services for greater consumer convenience and confidence.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) – to advance green computing with Remote GPU for Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). This will help mitigate the significant computing power and energy often required by emerging AI tools, while still enabling the power of AI.
IOWN Global Forum will continue to work on future-looking use cases, leveraging compute integrated network, in the following sectors:
- Entertainment – to create ultra-immersive presence with 5 x senses plus, transforming the film industry and live events, for example, by displaying every conceivable background in three dimensions, and delivering frictionless interaction between the real and virtual world.
- Energy – to deliver highly efficient energy management and low power consumption, improving the use of renewable sources by, for example, better exploiting solar energy and health monitoring of wind turbines, and creating an intelligent power grid.
Dr. Katsuhiko Kawazoe, President and Chairperson of IOWN Global Forum, commented: “IOWN Global Forum is bringing together like-minded companies to create a smarter world that billions of people can experience every day. Our technology roadmap sets out how we will create by 2030 an innate and pervasive next-generation communication infrastructure that addresses critical societal and environmental challenges and enriches consumer experiences. But this revolution won’t be simple and requires a truly global and open collaborative effort to make it happen.”
SOURCE : BusinessWire